Speaking of suspects, our mysterious Derby Girl is revealed in my last guest strip for Girls With Slingshots!
Also if you missed me at the Laughing Ogre last Sunday, I'll be there again this Sunday (the 13) from noon until three!
Nice editing. Did you use Photoshop, paint.net or something else to make that?
Gigafreak
You’d be surprised what you can accomplish with Paint and a plan.
Rachel Roth
Just paint? Holey cow, you must either have patience or skills! Sure, you can probably do anything you want with paint, besides making pictures with transparent portions, but it’s NOT easy!
Kaoy
I have spent too much time on the internet. What I was imagining would be behind that link was much, much worse.
Eh, not really. Or rather, not *all* the time. Y’just gotta find what it is they care about or take super-seriously, and hit it really really hard.
Like say…if they’re serious about cleaning, or keeping clutter out…Land the bottom half of a large reclining chair, right in the middle of their living room.
If they’ve got a thing for control, swap their locker’s normal tiny padlock for a military lock; the sort of thing that they’ll end up breaking the locker door off before they manage to break the new padlock.
If their fancy is for respect in general…Find the system they believe in and act by….And break that system–Be better than them in every way, by working inside the system, in a way that for them is just “not how it’s done”, or “not valid”. And when they *do* get you caught out for your shenanigans, shake it off like it’s no big deal; as soon as you’re done doing your time, go right back to being the best.
Of course though, it always depends on *why* you’re doing it, as to whether you’re being a proper asshole. If you’re doing it purely for the sake of being an ass, that’s not a proper asshole.
Example: My brother trolls folks online–he holds indefensible positions, that he knows are incorrect, and debates it to death when people try to correct him on it. Somehow he thinks that’s funny. But there’s no real point in doing that–he’s just wasting his time, along with the time of anyone who wants to get into it with him.
I suspect that’s what most people do when they are online, especially in the Youtube comments.
tinfoil theory
How can you defend an indefensible position?
Isn’t that by definition impossible?
Sam
With false logic – logic that makes no sense and can’t be drawn from the argument but that will irritate people into continuing to attempt to correct the troll.
Ivan
I have one just like that, except does it in real life, for everything, to death, to defend or deflect his lack of accomplishment at anything but useless arguing.
I’m hoping there will soon be a law and death penalty passed so I can request the privs of pushing the button or pulling the lever or whatever is involved to make it stop.
Love Dina, hugs.
Love that she freaked out Amazi-girl, another addition to her ‘stand behind ya’ list.
Yup, Carla’s a dick, we know this.
Sarah drawing dicks?
So Sarah drew the original dick, the one we saw Joyce wipe off.
This prompted Mike, ever the artist, to become inspired. Why, if he could draw a single penis, maybe he could draw more. Spread them to every white board in the hall. And to make sure his gift was permeant, and unwipable.
It only will truly count if you could see this penis on Google Maps.
newllend
Now something like that would be really Big-….lol I just can’t do it anymore it’s to much haha.
Chris Phoenix
What if you could _only_ see it on Google Maps?
Major massive hacker cred to the first person who manages to arrange some striking visual effect, in public, on so large a scale that no one realizes what it is, and for so long a time that it is picked up by the airplanes that do in-city “satellite” photos and appears on Google Maps.
tinfoil theory
Between 1950 and 1952, a bored weatherman, stationed north of Hudson Bay, left a monument that neither government nor time can eradicate. Using a bulldozer abandoned by the Air Force, he spent two years and great effort pushing boulders into a single word.
It can be seen from 10,000 feet, silhouetted against the snow. Government officials exchanged memos full of circumlocutions (no Latin equivalent exists) but failed to word an appropriation bill for the destruction of this cairn, that wouldn’t alert the press and embarrass both Parliament and Party.
It stands today, a monument to human spirit. If life exists on other planets, this may be the first message received from us.
— The Realist, November, 1964.
Well, here’s one and you don’t even need to leave Indiana.  Just go to Google Maps and put in “Bendix Woods Park” and you will get this — a grove of pine trees planted over seventy-five years ago, stretching out over a length of a half-mile and spelling out the word “STUDEBAKER”, as this location (about ten miles west of South Bend) was at one time the site of the Studebaker Motor Company testing and proving grounds.
Ivan
very cool. I grew up just west of there. Where was the plant? Is this where they built the Avanti? There doesn’t look like there’s enough on the site of the track for mfg.
Bill
This was just a testing facility, not the manufacturing site — you know, where they’d take the cars and drive ’em to destruction to find out what broke and then try to improve on it.  I believe the actual factory was in South Bend itself.
204 thoughts on “Suspects”
Yotomoe
Man, Looks like I have to make a trip to the bakery down the street. Sheesh.
Camachri
Get a cake with your comments from yesterday printed on it. Then you can eat your words.
Yotomoe
I cant’ tell if this is just a joke or a sick burn for something I’m not aware of.
Allcool-Dontcare
Idk let’s ask wondering Fry
Camachri
Is a joke. Relax mai frand. *pat pat*
Tunaro
I don’t think anyone really needs to be reminded Carla’s a dick.
Jen Aside
she should break out the pies just to be sure
Plasma Mongoose
She used to be a dick at least. 😀
newllend
She wasn’t really much of a Pro though.
LiaHansen
Oh nooooooooooooooooooooo
Plasma Mongoose
Oh yesssssssss.
Gigafreak
As you wish: Carla is now a dick.
Usayasha
That was not at all what I expected, but I am certainly impressed.
Plasma Mongoose
Very lulzy.
Rachel Roth
Nice editing. Did you use Photoshop, paint.net or something else to make that?
Gigafreak
You’d be surprised what you can accomplish with Paint and a plan.
Rachel Roth
Just paint? Holey cow, you must either have patience or skills! Sure, you can probably do anything you want with paint, besides making pictures with transparent portions, but it’s NOT easy!
Kaoy
I have spent too much time on the internet. What I was imagining would be behind that link was much, much worse.
Roborat
Rimshot.
Yotomoe
That’s the thing. If you’re a dick, you will continue to prove it even if noone wants you to.
Mr. Random
They’re nice that way.
davidbreslin101
“Dick persistence” is a psychological trait that separates humans from mere brute beasts.
dailybrad
Carla is adorable in her own way. I think I actually like her more than Ultra Car.
Plasma Mongoose
It takes real effort to be seen as a proper asshole you know.
Yotomoe
However being seen as an improper asshole is PRETTY easy.
Plasma Mongoose
Mike been a perfect example of a proper asshole as opposed to all the half-arsed assholes you usually find.
King G
Eh, not really. Or rather, not *all* the time. Y’just gotta find what it is they care about or take super-seriously, and hit it really really hard.
Like say…if they’re serious about cleaning, or keeping clutter out…Land the bottom half of a large reclining chair, right in the middle of their living room.
If they’ve got a thing for control, swap their locker’s normal tiny padlock for a military lock; the sort of thing that they’ll end up breaking the locker door off before they manage to break the new padlock.
If their fancy is for respect in general…Find the system they believe in and act by….And break that system–Be better than them in every way, by working inside the system, in a way that for them is just “not how it’s done”, or “not valid”. And when they *do* get you caught out for your shenanigans, shake it off like it’s no big deal; as soon as you’re done doing your time, go right back to being the best.
King G
Of course though, it always depends on *why* you’re doing it, as to whether you’re being a proper asshole. If you’re doing it purely for the sake of being an ass, that’s not a proper asshole.
Example: My brother trolls folks online–he holds indefensible positions, that he knows are incorrect, and debates it to death when people try to correct him on it. Somehow he thinks that’s funny. But there’s no real point in doing that–he’s just wasting his time, along with the time of anyone who wants to get into it with him.
Plasma Mongoose
I suspect that’s what most people do when they are online, especially in the Youtube comments.
tinfoil theory
How can you defend an indefensible position?
Isn’t that by definition impossible?
Sam
With false logic – logic that makes no sense and can’t be drawn from the argument but that will irritate people into continuing to attempt to correct the troll.
Ivan
I have one just like that, except does it in real life, for everything, to death, to defend or deflect his lack of accomplishment at anything but useless arguing.
I’m hoping there will soon be a law and death penalty passed so I can request the privs of pushing the button or pulling the lever or whatever is involved to make it stop.
Roborat
So, a proper asshole, would that be an asshole from Britain?
Tacdud2
I think it was Dina. She is a sneaky one.
Tunaro
Nah, if it was her, she’d ‘a tagged all the boards with pterosaurs or somethin’.
Dean
Dinosaur dicks, at the very least.
davidbreslin101
…or the notorious Priaposaurus Dix, a 30-foot mid-Jurassic fossil that looks, according to experts, “kinda unfortunate”.
EvergreenFir
And a pair of cat ears…
Tunaro
And definitely a dinosaur tail.
Idon'tcarenomore
Love Dina, hugs.
Love that she freaked out Amazi-girl, another addition to her ‘stand behind ya’ list.
Yup, Carla’s a dick, we know this.
Sarah drawing dicks?
Doctor_Who
Amber should take stealth lessons from her. It’d help her superhero career immensely.
Tunaro
Or take her on as her dinosaur themed ninja girl sidekick. She needs a friggin’ sidekick, already.
Jackson
Dang. Amazi-girl got out-Batmanned.
Mr. Random
So Sarah drew the original dick, the one we saw Joyce wipe off.
This prompted Mike, ever the artist, to become inspired. Why, if he could draw a single penis, maybe he could draw more. Spread them to every white board in the hall. And to make sure his gift was permeant, and unwipable.
Kryss LaBryn
Wait, wait, waitwaitwait. How fast is Robin in this ‘verse? Or is Riley still around? Maybe it’s a sugar-fueled DeSanto prank…
mr. purple
Sarah was the fist one to draw a dick
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2014/comic/book-4/03-up-all-night-to-get-vengeance/company/
alicemacher
Awww, someone wants attention…Pay attention to Carla, everyone!
newllend
My resecpt must be earned, If she wants to be noticed she has to do something Big.
alicemacher
Like drawing a single penis over the entire campus?
Plasma Mongoose
It only will truly count if you could see this penis on Google Maps.
newllend
Now something like that would be really Big-….lol I just can’t do it anymore it’s to much haha.
Chris Phoenix
What if you could _only_ see it on Google Maps?
Major massive hacker cred to the first person who manages to arrange some striking visual effect, in public, on so large a scale that no one realizes what it is, and for so long a time that it is picked up by the airplanes that do in-city “satellite” photos and appears on Google Maps.
tinfoil theory
Between 1950 and 1952, a bored weatherman, stationed north of Hudson Bay, left a monument that neither government nor time can eradicate. Using a bulldozer abandoned by the Air Force, he spent two years and great effort pushing boulders into a single word.
It can be seen from 10,000 feet, silhouetted against the snow. Government officials exchanged memos full of circumlocutions (no Latin equivalent exists) but failed to word an appropriation bill for the destruction of this cairn, that wouldn’t alert the press and embarrass both Parliament and Party.
It stands today, a monument to human spirit. If life exists on other planets, this may be the first message received from us.
— The Realist, November, 1964.
Bill
And two years ago, in Seattle WA, an artist painted 60-foot “Daddy Long-legs” spiders on the roof of the Seattle Center Armory building which is located adjacent to the famed Space Needle.  Needless to say, the view people get when looking down from the observation deck is startling, to say the least.
TJ Baltimore
Nightmare fuel!
Roborat
That is awesome.
Bill
Well, here’s one and you don’t even need to leave Indiana.  Just go to Google Maps and put in “Bendix Woods Park” and you will get this — a grove of pine trees planted over seventy-five years ago, stretching out over a length of a half-mile and spelling out the word “STUDEBAKER”, as this location (about ten miles west of South Bend) was at one time the site of the Studebaker Motor Company testing and proving grounds.
Ivan
very cool. I grew up just west of there. Where was the plant? Is this where they built the Avanti? There doesn’t look like there’s enough on the site of the track for mfg.
Bill
This was just a testing facility, not the manufacturing site — you know, where they’d take the cars and drive ’em to destruction to find out what broke and then try to improve on it.  I believe the actual factory was in South Bend itself.
An Average Loser
Even assholes need to stay relevant these days. . .
Salmo
Carla and Rachel! Talking! AAH!
Hoboturtle
Rachel you shouldn’t call your daughter an asshole, that’s bad for her self esteem. I guess…
Wait, what will Carla’s parents in this universe like? Are they still like Joe? Are they the creative minds behind the Ultra Car cartoon?
John
But Carla takes pride in being an asshole.
NerdHerder
“Who is this Mike?”
And so it begins.
Hoboturtle
She’s so far into her alternate psyche that she can’t remember her friends anymore. It’s so sad.
4th Dimension
It’s more likely she is intentionally asking who is Mike in order not to reveal she allready knows him and thus blow her identity.
Jason
Ooof, knowing Mike, he’ll try to reveal her identity, so I’m betting she’s going to try to avoid interrogating him in public.
xKiv
He will try to get her to reveal herself.
Kernanator
Well, I guess this comic is proof that Dina and Matoi are the same person.
Plasma Mongoose
If you mean Matoi the stalker girl from SZS, then yes, yes she is.
Ancestral Hamster